Gatsby deployment fails on Codeship CI

[akhatri]

Description

My website project fails to build and deploy on the Codeship CI. It works locally and generates the static files as expected

Steps to reproduce

1. prepare a simple gatsby project that runs locally and prepares the static files
2. connect the Git repository with Codeship for automated deployment
3. Prepare a custom script to build the project and install dependencies, as below

yarn global add gatsby-cli@latest
yarn global add gatsby
yarn install
gatsby build

Expected result

The project should build successfully

Actual result

At the gatsby build step i get this error
error There was a problem loading the local build command. Gatsby may not be installed. Perhaps you need to run "npm install"?

Note: This error has appeared before as per my initial investigation and it was apparently fixed in the latest cli. I have the latest versions too that I've outlined below

Related links #1899 #1897

Environment

• Gatsby version (npm list gatsby): gatsby@1.9.260
• gatsby-cli version (gatsby --version): 1.9.260
• Node.js version: v8.10.0
• NPM version: 6.0.1
• Operating System: Windows 10 local, Codeship instance is a Linux container (Ubuntu 14.04)

File contents (if changed)

gatsby-config.js: N/A
package.json:

  "engines": {
    "node": "8.10.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "aos": "^2.2.0",
    "autoprefixer": "^7.2.5",
    "basic-auth": "^2.0.0",
    "bootstrap": "^4.0.0",
    "compression": "^1.7.1",
    "cross-env": "^5.1.3",
    "debug": "^3.1.0",
    "eslint": "^4.17.0",
    "eslint-config-airbnb": "^15.1.0",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "^2.8.0",
    "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "^6.0.3",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "^7.6.1",
    "express": "^4.16.2",
    "gatsby": "^1.9.260",
    "gatsby-cli": "^1.1.52",
    "gatsby-link": "^1.6.36",
    "gatsby-plugin-google-analytics": "^1.0.17",
    "gatsby-plugin-postcss-sass": "^1.0.16",
    "gatsby-plugin-react-helmet": "^1.0.8",
    "gatsby-plugin-react-next": "^1.0.8",
    "gatsby-source-filesystem": "^1.5.16",
    "gatsby-transformer-json": "^1.0.14",
    "gh-pages": "^1.1.0",
    "global": "^4.3.2",
    "helmet": "^3.10.0",
    "pixrem": "^4.0.1",
    "react-burger-menu": "^2.4.4",
    "serve-static": "^1.13.1",
    "shx": "^0.2.2",
    "svg-sprite-loader": "^3.6.2"
  }

gatsby-node.js: N/A
gatsby-browser.js: N/A
gatsby-ssr.js: N/A

gatsby-config.js

const pixrem = require('pixrem');
const autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');

module.exports = {
  siteMetadata: {
    title: `Gatsby Default Starter`,
  },
  plugins: [
    `gatsby-plugin-react-next`,
    `gatsby-plugin-react-helmet`,
    `svgo`,
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-plugin-postcss-sass`,
      options: {
        postCssPlugins: [
          pixrem(),
          autoprefixer({
            browsers: ['last 2 versions']
          })
        ],
        precision: 8
      }
    },
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-source-filesystem`,
      options: {
        name: `data`,
        path: `${__dirname}/src/data/`,
      },
    },
    `gatsby-transformer-json`
  ],
}

[akhatri]

Update somehow gatsby build loads now by running the following steps. I deleted the package-lock.json file, took the updates yarn lock file and published it to github to trigger the deployment task

npm uninstall -g gatsby-cli
npm uninstall -g gatsby
yarn global add gatsby-cli@latest
yarn global add gatsby
yarn install
pwd
gatsby build

But now none of the plugins are installed. I get the following errors

Error: Cannot find module 'pixrem' so I commented that module but still stuck with the error below

success delete html and css files from previous builds  0.043 s
success open and validate gatsby-config  0.005 s
error Unable to find plugin "gatsby-plugin-react-next"


  Error: Unable to find plugin "gatsby-plugin-react-next"

[akhatri]

So i was curious if it was the latest npm version and it indeed was. Downgrading it allows Codeship to build the project. Guess its not always great to rely on the latest version of NPM all the time 😄

  "engines": {
    "node": "7.9.0",
    "npm": "4.2.0"
  },

Script commands

npm install -g gatsby-cli@latest
npm install
gatsby build